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Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Unfortunately we're having to join you this Saturday morning.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has launched a major regime change war with Iran.

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Speaker 1: This appears to be the full Monty Crystal. We have

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Speaker 1: the video that the President released at some two am

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Speaker 1: Eastern time where he declared this war. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: listen to some of the justification.

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Speaker 2: A short time ago, the United States military began major

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Speaker 2: combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the

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Speaker 2: American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime,

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Speaker 2: a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. It's menacing

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Speaker 2: activities directly in danger the United States, our troops, our

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Speaker 2: bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world. For forty

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Speaker 2: seven years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America

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Speaker 2: and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,

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Speaker 2: targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people

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Speaker 2: in many, many countries. Among the regime's very first acts

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Speaker 2: was to back a violent takeover of the US embassy

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Speaker 2: in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for four hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty four days. In nineteen eighty three, Irans proxies

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Speaker 2: carried out the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut that killed

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Speaker 2: two hundred and forty one American military personnel in two thousand.

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Speaker 2: They knew and were probably involved with the attack on

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Speaker 2: the USS coal many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed

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Speaker 2: hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime's proxies

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Speaker 2: have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces in

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Speaker 2: recent So I was going.

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Speaker 3: To say a little bit of using the embassy to yeah,

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Speaker 3: to justify this insane right.

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Speaker 1: So I think the most significant part of that statement

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Speaker 1: was obviously, even though they're calling this a preemptive strike,

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Speaker 1: it is a you know, not actually a preemptive strike.

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Speaker 1: They're using a long historical justification thing. This is a

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Speaker 1: forty seven year war. This is a war explicitly now

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Speaker 1: declared as regime change. But I think that the most

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Speaker 1: significant part of the President's statement was the open acknowledgment

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Speaker 1: that American lives are at risk and they may be

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Speaker 1: lost as a result of this. I know that we

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Speaker 1: have a clip is a little bit later on in

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Speaker 1: that speech. It's a full eight minutes, so we're not

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Speaker 1: going to play at all for you.

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Speaker 2: She seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes

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Speaker 2: may be lost, and we may have casualties that often

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Speaker 2: happens in war, but we're doing this not for now.

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Speaker 2: We're doing this for the future, and it is a

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Speaker 2: noble mission. We pray for every service member as they

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Speaker 2: selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans are our

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Speaker 2: children will never be threatened by a nuclear armed Iran.

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Speaker 1: Right, and so this is an open declaration of a

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Speaker 1: regime changed war. Crystal, do we have that statement? From

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Speaker 1: this morning? Around four am, a Washington Post reporter was

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Speaker 1: able to reach President Trump by phone, where he didn't

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Speaker 1: even make any pretense about the nuclear program, about the

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Speaker 1: missile program, even about regional proxies. He said in a

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Speaker 1: brief phone call, his main concern is freedom for the

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Speaker 1: Iranian people, and the US is working with Iran to

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Speaker 1: make a place that is safe. All I want is

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Speaker 1: freedom for the people. This is two thousand and five,

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Speaker 1: George W. Bush inaugural. Obviously, you know you and I

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Speaker 1: are still absorbing the news. But it's catastrophic already. We

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Speaker 1: see massive retaliatory strikes across the entire region. It's a

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Speaker 1: full blown regional war and the war is only blasted

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Speaker 1: for six hours now or so, and it's a catastrophe

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Speaker 1: I think, strategically for the United States, for the Iranian people,

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Speaker 1: and for the American people, for everybody really who lives

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and a direct you know, I mean, in direct

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Speaker 3: contravention of Trump's positioning on the campaign is so I'm

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Speaker 3: going to be the peace candidate. And there was all

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Speaker 3: kinds of don't vote for kamalast you'll send your sons

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Speaker 3: to war, And now you literally have him out here

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Speaker 3: basically saying, yeah, your sons and daughters may die for Israel,

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Speaker 3: because let's be real about who really wants this war,

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Speaker 3: and it's Israel. And they've been pushing for decades at

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Speaker 3: this point and found an easy mark here with Trump,

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Speaker 3: in spite of the fact that his own top military

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Speaker 3: advisors were saying this could go very poorly for the US.

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Speaker 3: We think that this is a bad idea, that there

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Speaker 3: is not some limited strike option here that Iran because they,

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Speaker 3: you know, of course, obviously see this as existential. They're

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Speaker 3: this is not a Venezuela, you know, quick in, quick count,

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Speaker 3: grab a leader and done. Not that I think that

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Speaker 3: that's really that end of the story with Venezuela, but

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Speaker 3: that's how they perceive it. At this point. This does

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Speaker 3: not look like it's going to be another twelve day

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Speaker 3: going to take count these specific nuclear sites and move on. No,

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Speaker 3: this is a far reaching, already regional war where the

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Speaker 3: justifications offered in that you know, eight minute speech and

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Speaker 3: then talking to reporters afterwards, have ranged from everything to

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Speaker 3: the nuclear program, the missiles, the revolution itself, the nineteen

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Speaker 3: the long litany of things that he listed out there

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Speaker 3: to hey, we just want human rights and freedom for

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Speaker 3: the Iranian people, and we have a new justification, which

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Speaker 3: is he's claiming that the Iranians interfered in the election,

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Speaker 3: like pertectual election interference and use that be able to

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Speaker 3: use that claim later on to mess with the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six elections here as well, which appears to be

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Speaker 3: part of the plot. I mean, it's there's so many

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Speaker 3: layers of dystopia here that it's hard to wrap your

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Speaker 3: bit more of the context here for people who, you know,

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Speaker 3: thinking about how we got to this place, because once

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Speaker 3: again you had Trump posturing like we're going through this

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Speaker 3: diplomatic process. We had these meetings in Geneva. This week,

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Speaker 3: the Omani's came out and said, the Iranians offered a

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Speaker 3: deal that went far beyond the JCPOA that was the

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Speaker 3: Obama era nuclear deal. They offered, you know, these concessions

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Speaker 3: that went way beyond what Obama was able to achieve,

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Speaker 3: thinking that could potentially give Trump and ount to say,

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Speaker 3: you know what, I did so much better than Barack

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Speaker 3: Obama could never look at me the art of the

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Speaker 3: deal and give himself an out. But what we're hearing

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Speaker 3: from Israeli officials is that once again this diplomacy was

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Speaker 3: just a ruse, that this was planned months ago, the

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Speaker 3: date was set weeks ago, and in in fact, all

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Speaker 3: of this was just a dodge to wait until the

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Speaker 3: time of their choosing. So a war of choice. Anyone

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Speaker 3: you hear out there saying preemptive strike, blah blah, blah.

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Speaker 3: You should kindly disregard everything they have to say after this,

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Speaker 3: because this is an aggressive, illegal war of choice from

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Speaker 3: this president An the Israelis, and there will be massive

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Speaker 3: like recaer cussions that we cannot even imagine right now,

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Speaker 3: that plan out for years and decades to come.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the strikes are now planned for many, many days

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Speaker 1: to continue. It appears initially this morning we're hearing from

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Speaker 1: the US military there will be some rolling types of

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Speaker 1: strikes one to two days of strikes, reassessment for battle damage,

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Speaker 1: one to two days of strikes. Obviously, the enemy also

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Speaker 1: gets a vote, and they are having their vote right now.

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Speaker 1: Do we want to go ahead and put the list

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Speaker 1: of countries that Iran has bombed already after the initial

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Speaker 1: strikes that happened on Tehran early two am our time,

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Speaker 1: so middle of the day, for all of them, the list,

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Speaker 1: I believe, Yep, Here we have it. We have a

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Speaker 1: number in Bahrain, we have a number in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Their videos coming out are unbelievable already to anybody who

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Speaker 1: has visited or lived in the region. The most striking

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Speaker 1: is exactly the one that you can see there on

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Speaker 1: the screen that was where the fifth fleet actually is Crystal.

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Speaker 1: Can we put the US soldier reacting? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: these are not scenes that you really ever would want

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Speaker 1: to see. The next one that we're about to show

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Speaker 1: you is an American presumably an American service member, some

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Speaker 1: hear him react live as a Iranian suicide shah head

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Speaker 1: drone makes direct contact with a radar installation in Manama.

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Speaker 1: Can why don't we make that video us? Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then we can see oh shit, oh.

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Speaker 4: Shit, oh oh shit, oh fuck, oh my god, oh

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Speaker 4: do fuck me? A fucking missile actually got through others more.

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Speaker 4: I gotta get the fuck out of.

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Speaker 1: Here, so you could see that was from an Iranian

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Speaker 1: suicide drone. He mistook that as a missile. There's other

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Speaker 1: videos actually showing the direct impact. These are scenes that

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Speaker 1: they have an asymmetric capability already. Many of their missiles

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Speaker 1: have been intercepted in the Gulf. We don't have any

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Speaker 1: confirmed American casualties right now, but to zoom out a

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Speaker 1: little bit more, I can confirm the Iranians delivered a

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Speaker 1: message on letter, specifically to Jared Kushner and to Steve

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Speaker 1: wick Coop, saying that they will not pursue a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 1: The Omani foreign minister was actually on television yesterday confirming

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Speaker 1: exactly what you said, that they offered to give up

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Speaker 1: and basically to end this entire charade. But if you've

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Speaker 1: been watching our program, I do think it's important that

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Speaker 1: you all know the goalposts have all moved on behalf

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Speaker 1: the nuclear weapon. I also, I finally have some more

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Speaker 1: He believes that any enrichment whatsoever, even for like medical isotopes,

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Speaker 1: so you all understand where that term came from. I

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Speaker 1: also do think it's important now to see that diplomacy

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Speaker 1: under this administration can never be trusted. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: all knew that it was kind of a joke. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the Jared Kushner and Steve Wikoff negotiations. The JCPOA came

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Speaker 1: They didn't even really know what they were doing. It's

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Speaker 1: all pretextual, right exactly. It was all pretextual for a

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Speaker 1: very important to underscore that what the administration has done

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Speaker 1: by doing the full Monty of regime change, there's no

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Speaker 1: off ram from here. The Iranians are fighting for their survival.

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Speaker 1: There has been no offer. They are saying freedom overthrow.

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Speaker 1: We have reports already this morning that Ayatola Hamani was

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Speaker 1: actually targeted by the United States and Israel in a

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Speaker 1: Iranian state media saying that they have been killed. And

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Speaker 1: you know, if you've been watching our coverage, they are

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Speaker 1: prepared for this. They knew that some ninety percent of

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Speaker 1: they also clearly had pre approved strike packages across the

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Speaker 1: entire region. The reason that they're doing that is they

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Speaker 1: know that this is now a war of this is

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Speaker 1: an existential thing for the regime. You have to go

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Speaker 1: all out try to turn it into a real war

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Speaker 1: as much of a nightmare for the United States. I

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Speaker 1: also think it's important, you know, to even take it back,

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Speaker 1: as you said, you know, it's not exactly political times

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Speaker 1: right now when so many lives are at stake, but

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Speaker 1: this is the most profound betrayal I think of any president,

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Speaker 1: from the campaign to the actions in his administration, and

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Speaker 1: in particular the vice president and many of the other

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Speaker 1: And I knew we were there, and yeah.

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Speaker 1: be unbelievable. Already this morning, turning on Fox News and

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Speaker 1: see it. By the way, CNN, not only the Amelek thing,

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Speaker 1: they've got Brett McGirk and all of these officials who

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Speaker 1: have all been advocating for regime.

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Speaker 3: Change, preemptive strike, preemptive strike.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, preemptive strike, who are just doing the bidding and

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Speaker 1: printing Pentagon war Pentagon press statements. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: Pentagon pet Hegseth. He's calling this operation epic Fury. This

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Speaker 1: is like cosplaying war, except this real life. And there

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Speaker 1: are already dozens of people who have been killed. Why

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Speaker 1: don't we put up the statement from the Iranian state

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Speaker 1: media of a.

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Speaker 3: School let me stroke Yeah, let me put this one up.

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Speaker 3: This is horrible. This school, a girls' school it appears

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Speaker 3: was elementary school, was struck by either the US or Israel.

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Speaker 3: Here they're reporting at least forty killed, forty eight students

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Speaker 3: injured following this strike on a girls school in monob As.

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Speaker 3: Rescue and recovery efforts continue. So, yeah, you know nation

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Speaker 3: that strikes girls' school, and do you think they're going

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Speaker 3: to be sad about Do you think they're going to

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Speaker 3: apologize for it? Do you think they're going to accept

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Speaker 3: any blame or accountability? Of course not, of course, it's

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Speaker 3: probably it's real. We look at what the Israelis and

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Speaker 3: the US got away with the genocide in Gaza. Now

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Speaker 3: literally every level of horror and brutalities on the table.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was probably the Israelis from what I've seen

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Speaker 1: now so far, you know, sticking to their long tried

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Speaker 1: and true you know war targeted strikes that we all

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Speaker 1: know well from what happened in Gaza, and it is

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Speaker 1: just so unbelievable already to watch how this has gone

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Speaker 1: out and what we are watching now so far. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really think again, you know, despite all of the

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Speaker 1: talk about peace and diplomacy, to launch the war in

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Speaker 1: this fashion, we have no off ramp. It's over. I mean,

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Speaker 1: unless there's a literal about face by Donald Trump, which

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Speaker 1: I think is very unlikely. The other problem, as we saw,

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Speaker 1: is that it's very easy to start a war. It's

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Speaker 1: much harder to end a war. And that's when you're

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Speaker 1: in control of your own government. Now you have a

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Speaker 1: foreign rogue state which will bomb any country which is

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Speaker 1: in the immediate vicinity and can kick things off into

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Speaker 1: higher gear whenever they want.

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Speaker 3: To, and our ambassador to that country saying that there,

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Speaker 3: you know, we're down with the Greater Israel project of

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Speaker 3: you know, Israel wants to just fully fulfill their biblical

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Speaker 3: prophecy and take over whatever portions of their neighboring states

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Speaker 3: that they want to. I mean that, you know, apparently

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Speaker 3: is US official policy at this point, given that it

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Speaker 3: was stated by the US ambassador that it appears to

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Speaker 3: reflect facts on the ground in terms of Israeli behavior,

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Speaker 3: and was never walked back by any element of our regime.

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Speaker 3: And I just want to throw the Epstein angle of

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Speaker 3: this into the mix, because you have to look at

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Speaker 3: this and in some senses go it doesn't really add up.

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Speaker 3: The military didn't want this war. The political people knew

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Speaker 3: that this could be a big problem. I mean, you

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Speaker 3: just look at the polling and you know that it

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Speaker 3: is catastrophic. Now will Republicans who are Trump supporters, will

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Speaker 3: they come around and suddenly flip and they'll support sure

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Speaker 3: but independence any sort of swing voter, they are draumatically

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Speaker 3: opposed to this, especially when from the jump you're saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: Americans are probably gonna die here.

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Speaker 1: Sorry.

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Speaker 3: So the political piece, the military piece, our allies in

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Speaker 3: the region they did not want this war, Our broader

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Speaker 3: allies in Europe and Canada, they were not pushing for this.

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Speaker 3: This was just Israel and the Israeli you know, pro

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Speaker 3: Israel donors in the US, and then Donald Trump, who

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Speaker 3: decided that this is the direction that we should go in.

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Speaker 3: And so you have to factor into this. Okay, you know,

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Speaker 3: they are not so stupid in this government that they

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Speaker 3: can't see what we do, that this is potentially disastrous,

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Speaker 3: that there's no off ramp that we could get dragged in,

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Speaker 3: that it's this massive regional conflagration at a time when

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Speaker 3: Trump is already incredibly politically weak. And then so you

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Speaker 3: have to couple that with Okay, well, maybe it really

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Speaker 3: is something that Israel knows about him. In the Epstein files.

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Speaker 3: You know, we have this ongoing mass cover. Clearly there

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Speaker 3: are things in there he does not want to come out,

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Speaker 3: as evidenced by the fact that they are hiding the files,

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Speaker 3: that they are giving Glayanne Maxwell this cushy treatment. And

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Speaker 3: now I think you have to add another piece of

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Speaker 3: evidence that he has decided to do the thing that

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Speaker 3: is the one line he has always Trump has always

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Speaker 3: been very belligerent, right, very hawkish. He's not afraid to

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Speaker 3: use the military. But the one thing he seemed to

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Speaker 3: be genuinely concerned about is getting embroiled in a long term,

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Speaker 3: forever war, especially in the Middle East. And now, yeah,

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Speaker 3: go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Well I'll add another layer crystal. And I you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been a bit difficult to try and navigate this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just going to come out and tell everybody.

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Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump believes that the Israelis would use

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Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. I think he believes that they would

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Speaker 1: use a nuclear weapon against Iran, or at the very least,

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Speaker 1: that they would launch the preemptive war no matter what,

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Speaker 1: and they would basically dare America to not defend them.

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Speaker 1: So it could be it's also I genuinely think either

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Speaker 1: some sort of you know, either black or strategic blackmail,

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Speaker 1: very at the very least, and considering how the Israelis

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Speaker 1: have operated in Gaza, I think we should believe if

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Speaker 1: they're going to make those types of threats, and you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's something I've been hearing a little bit behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. It's been a bit you know, difficult to actually, well,

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Speaker 1: it's been difficult to assess because we talked about it,

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Speaker 1: like do we really think that, Like it just seems

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Speaker 1: so crazy, I think, as evidenced by what has happened,

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Speaker 1: as you just said, who launches a preemptive war, Who

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Speaker 1: launches a war of choice nine months before the midterm

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Speaker 1: elections of which eighty percent of Americans are against? That's

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Speaker 1: not normal, Not when you have the entire administration full

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Speaker 1: of people who are on the record who are against

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Speaker 1: what regime change, war with Iran. Something is going on.

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Speaker 1: Something is going on. I personally think there was a

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Speaker 1: nuclear blackmail angle effectively that and some behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, this is a precedent, by

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Speaker 1: the way, from the Yamkapor War, and you can go

548
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Speaker 1: and read a little bit about that in nineteen seventy three.

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Speaker 1: But I do think it's very important for us to

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Speaker 1: try and assess now how we are as a democracy.

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Speaker 1: We had literally no checks and have no ability to

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Speaker 1: check inside this now because and I really mean this

553
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Speaker 1: now with Congress, the Congress is surrendering aside from Rocana,

554
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Speaker 1: and if we want, we can put his video on

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Speaker 1: because I want to give this guy as much credit

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Speaker 1: as humanly possible him and Thomas Massey, who at the

557
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Speaker 1: very least foresaw this, who are at least calling get

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Speaker 1: these guys on the record. Because John Thune and Chuck

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Speaker 1: Schumer and Mark Warner and all of these other guys.

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Speaker 1: They may talk about how they're against it, they're not.

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Speaker 1: They're against the you know, they're against the process of

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Speaker 1: which it all went down. But these are the only

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Speaker 1: people who are at least demanding, let's say, if this

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Speaker 1: is a disaster sometime in the future, that we can

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Speaker 1: have out and hold these people accountable for actually doing this.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's play Rocanna.

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Speaker 5: Donald Kirk has launched a more on Iran. The Congress

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Speaker 5: supposed Rea can be on Monday to vote on Thomas

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Speaker 5: Nancy and My Warpiver's resolution to stop this war. Comb

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Speaker 5: says his goal is to topple the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 4: But the American people are.

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Speaker 5: Tired of regime change wars that cost us billions of

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Speaker 5: dollars and risk for lives. We don't want to be

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Speaker 5: at more with a country of ninety million people in

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Speaker 5: the Middle East. Every member of Congress must go on

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Speaker 5: a record today on how they won't vote on Thomas

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Speaker 5: Fancy and my Warpiver's resolution.

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Speaker 3: And you know, they really the Democratic leadership, like the

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Speaker 3: Capitulation Caucus on the Democratic side, they really pulled some

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Speaker 3: fuckery here because this vote was supposed to happen last

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Speaker 3: week and they came to Row and they said, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: some people are wavering, it'll go better if we wait

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Speaker 3: till next week. And just happened that that Trump enough

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Speaker 3: time to you know, launch this war alongside Israel on

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Speaker 3: their chosen day, you know, to honor their commitments to

586
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Speaker 3: destroying Amelek before this war Powers resolution could could come down.

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Speaker 3: Now it's been so Mark Warner, you mentioned Mark Warner.

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Speaker 3: He put out like a really extremely lame statement that

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Speaker 3: I can put up on the screen to give you

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Speaker 3: a sense of you know, these are some of the

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Speaker 3: things that we're hearing, like from him and from Schumer

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Speaker 3: ahead of time, which was hand ringing and concern trolling

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Speaker 3: over the process here. So he says, in part by

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Speaker 3: the president's owned words, American heroes may be lost. That

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00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 3: alone should demand at the highest level of scrutiny, deliberation,

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Speaker 3: and accountability. So not don't do it, just we need

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Speaker 3: some more scrutiny, Yet the President moved forward without seeking

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Speaker 3: congressional authorization. The Constitution has cleared the decision to take

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Speaker 3: this nation of war rest with Congress launching large scale

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Speaker 3: military operations, particularly in the absence of an imminent threat

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Speaker 3: to the US raiss series legal and constitutional concerns. Congress

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Speaker 3: must be fully briefed, and the administration must come forward

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Speaker 3: with a clear legal justification and defined end state and

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Speaker 3: a plan that avoids dragging the US into yet another

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Speaker 3: costly and unnecessary war. So, you know, extremely lame statement there.

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Speaker 3: I will say there are others who have come out

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Speaker 3: who have been much more forceful, including people you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: necessarily expect. This is Tim Kaine, he said, you know,

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Speaker 3: he's a major proponent of calling back warpowers from the

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Speaker 3: executive branch. Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of

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Speaker 3: US meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East?

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Speaker 3: Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize we had a

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Speaker 3: diplomatic agreement with Ron that was keeping its nuclear program

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Speaker 3: in check until he ripped it up during the first term.

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Speaker 3: For months, I've raised hell about the fact that American

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Speaker 3: people want lower prices, not more war, especially wars that

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Speaker 3: aren't authorized by Congress as required by the Constitution and

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Speaker 3: don't have a clear objective. These strikes are a colossal mistake,

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Speaker 3: and I pray they do not cost our sons and

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Speaker 3: daughters in uniform and an embassy throughout the region their lives.

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Speaker 3: The Senate should immediately return to session vote on my

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Speaker 3: War Powers resolution to block the use of US forces

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Speaker 3: in hostilities against Irun. Every single Senator needs to go

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Speaker 3: on the record about this dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic action.

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Speaker 3: So you know, you're going to have a real divide

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Speaker 3: in the Democrats. No one is going to well except

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Speaker 3: for John Foterman has already come out and said he

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Speaker 3: thinks this is great and wonderful and whatever. So you've

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Speaker 3: got that. But outside of him, you're gonna have two camps.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna have the camps like row and like Tim

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Speaker 3: Kaine here who are clearly opposed, and then you're gonna

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Speaker 3: have the process handbringers like Mark Warner, and so take

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Speaker 3: careful note of who is who, and then also take

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Speaker 3: careful note of how everybody Democrat or Republican votes on

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Speaker 3: these war powers resolution, because at this point Obviously it's

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Speaker 3: too late to stop anything. And let's be honest, even

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Speaker 3: if they voted on this last week, this administration was

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Speaker 3: going to do whatever the fuck they wanted to do anyway.

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Speaker 3: But at the very least, at the very least, we

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Speaker 3: can get some sort of record of who was where,

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Speaker 3: who supported what, because they us be political hell to

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Speaker 3: pay for everyone who was okay with this, who enabled it,

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Speaker 3: and especially for those who actively cheerleaded it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I think you're absolutely right, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's unbelievable watching already, you know some of the scenes. Also,

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Speaker 1: there's some chatter from Radio Israel and multiple other Israeli

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Speaker 1: news outlets that the Ayatola Komane was you know, targeted directly.

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Speaker 1: They're saying that he was likely injured and they would

649
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Speaker 1: be shocked if he was not dead. So you already

650
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Speaker 1: have major figures in the Iranian regime who are either

651
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Speaker 1: confirmed dead or who are very likely dead, who are

652
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Speaker 1: all right now. But you can see, you know, currently,

653
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Speaker 1: as we're all watching right now, one of the most

654
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Speaker 1: extraordinary wars of choice now in years from the United States.

655
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Speaker 1: I mean, I never thought I would sit here and

656
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Speaker 1: give flowers to George W. Bush, for manufactory evidence, for

657
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Speaker 1: taking it to the UN Security Council, for taking it

658
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Speaker 1: to Congress, and getting Hillary Clinton and all of the

659
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Speaker 1: other Democrats on record, and truly, I mean ninety percent

660
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Speaker 1: of the American people, we're supporting the war with Iraq.

661
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Speaker 1: We had the cable new there was no debate, none,

662
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Speaker 1: zero on this entire thing. Most people are probably just

663
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Speaker 1: waking up this morning and they had no idea that

664
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Speaker 1: this was even really on the table. And now, you know,

665
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Speaker 1: you may know somebody, I certainly do. People who are

666
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Speaker 1: deployed now in the Gulf, people who are deployed on

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Speaker 1: these carrier strike groups, people who are served in the

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Speaker 1: United States military. Their lives are at risk. Not my words,

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Speaker 1: the President's words. Their lives are at risk. They may

670
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Speaker 1: be lost. But it is what it is, is basically

671
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Speaker 1: what he is saying now currently. Look, there's going to

672
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Speaker 1: be a lot of propaganda over the years, or over

673
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Speaker 1: the it is going to be years most likely now

674
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Speaker 1: in this there's going to be a lot of propaganda

675
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Speaker 1: over the years, I think on this conflict. Don't just

676
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Speaker 1: you know, let's remember Iraq mission accomplished only took three weeks.

677
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Speaker 1: There will be many claims from this administration. They will

678
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Speaker 1: deride those of us who spoke out of against it

679
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Speaker 1: as pannikins. They will manufacture victories, They will try to

680
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Speaker 1: portray it as something that worked in the immediate term.

681
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Speaker 1: Let us all remember Iraq, Syria, Libya. I mean, I

682
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Speaker 1: can't even think on the off the top of my

683
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Speaker 1: head all of the interventions that we have had where

684
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Speaker 1: it plays out that way. Every single time Afghanistan, we

685
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Speaker 1: brought democracy to Afghanistan, it all worked out with they

686
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Speaker 1: even had elections crystal. It was unbelievable, it was beautiful,

687
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Speaker 1: people were voting. How mad Karzai was in power for years.

688
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Speaker 1: We thought it was a settled matter, and then what happened.

689
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Speaker 1: What happened. So do not let these people just gaslight

690
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Speaker 1: you with immediate declarations of victory or that it's all

691
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Speaker 1: going to work out. We don't know yet the consequences.

692
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Speaker 1: It will take many, many years to really grapple. All

693
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Speaker 1: we can really hope for, you know, in the immediate

694
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Speaker 1: term is like less loss of life. I don't see

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Speaker 1: how it's possible. I really don't not. Whenever you're going

696
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Speaker 1: to declare from the immediate term that this is it

697
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Speaker 1: and when you have the Israelis who are there, who

698
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Speaker 1: are to bomb literally, you know, anything in sight in

699
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Speaker 1: order to keep the war as brutal as possible, because

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Speaker 1: they don't want, you know, any element of the Iranian

701
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Speaker 1: regime to come to power their nightmare. You know, this

702
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Speaker 1: is another thing I think we should explain. The best

703
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Speaker 1: case scenario, let's say, for how this would all work out,

704
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Speaker 1: would be some sort of IRGC commander who says, fine,

705
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Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. I've seized control. Trump

706
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Speaker 1: declares victory. Do you think Israel is going to let

707
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Speaker 1: that happen? No, right, They're gonna want the like they

708
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Speaker 1: want the full Manti, they want the full on Pallavi

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Speaker 1: restoring of the monarchy, which many of the country is

710
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Speaker 1: not going to accept. That get basically guarantees civil war

711
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Speaker 1: from the point that we are. Point we're at, regardless

712
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Speaker 1: of whether we come in or not with boots on

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Speaker 1: the ground or who even knows, with loss of life

714
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Speaker 1: in other spheares well.

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Speaker 3: And let's talk about a little bit why the Israelis

716
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Speaker 3: feel that it's this is now or never for their

717
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Speaker 3: moment to permanently establish their regional hegemony. And you know,

718
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Speaker 3: take out their longtime nemesis Iran and make sure they

719
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Speaker 3: can ever achieve the nuclear weapons or any sort of

720
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Speaker 3: balance in the region. Well, Israel has They've got a

721
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Speaker 3: lot of issues. You know, there's a poll that just

722
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Speaker 3: came out that showed, for the first time ever on

723
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Speaker 3: net the American people have more sympathy for the Palestinians

724
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Speaker 3: than the Israelis. If you told me that five years ago,

725
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Speaker 3: I would have told you to get your head examined.

726
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 3: It is over for them in terms of a blank check.

727
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Speaker 3: The American people are done. There was some movement with Republicans,

728
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Speaker 3: but predominantly with Independence and Democrats. Overwhelmingly they are disgusted

729
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Speaker 3: by our enabling of this rogue, genocidal regime. And it

730
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Speaker 3: is highly likely in twenty twenty eight you are going

731
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Speaker 3: to get a president who has a very different view

732
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Speaker 3: of things and is going to take a very different approach.

733
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Speaker 3: At the same time, they are staring down a very

734
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Speaker 3: difficult demographic future. They've experienced significant brain drain of the

735
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Speaker 3: more secular and highly educated of their citizens who have

736
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Speaker 3: left the country. I'm sure this. You know, New War

737
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Speaker 3: is probably not going to help them mount on that front.

738
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Speaker 3: And you have increasingly the population made up of hard

739
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Speaker 3: right and more orthodox families who have large numbers of children,

740
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Speaker 3: but don't want to work, don't want to fight in

741
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Speaker 3: the military, and want to just benefit from Israel's generous

742
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Speaker 3: social safety net. So the math doesn't math over a

743
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Speaker 3: long period of time. That's why, both from a demographic

744
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Speaker 3: perspective and also a political perspective in the US most importantly,

745
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Speaker 3: but around the world globally. You know, their reputation is

746
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Speaker 3: in the toilet. That's why they feel like now is

747
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Speaker 3: the time we have to go for broke because this

748
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Speaker 3: is very risky for them too. I mean they're going

749
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Speaker 3: to take damage, right, this is going to be this

750
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Speaker 3: requires yeah, they already have. This requires a significant amount

751
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Speaker 3: of risk taking. So you might ask yourself, well, why

752
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Speaker 3: does Israel want this right now at this time? As well?

753
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Speaker 3: That is the reason, because they can see the writing

754
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Speaker 3: on the wall that they are at the peak of

755
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Speaker 3: their strength right now and things are only going to

756
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Speaker 3: be down hill from here, and that the very existence

757
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Speaker 3: of the state and like their strength is also very

758
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 3: much on the line. So you know, you've got that,

759
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 3: and then you've got whatever is going on with Trump.

760
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Speaker 3: You know, whether it's the nuclear blackmail, the Epstein thing.

761
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Speaker 3: You know, people you said it's called that's being called

762
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Speaker 3: Operation epic Fury. They see people saying, let's call it

763
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Speaker 3: Operation Epstein Fury, which I absolutely think we should all

764
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Speaker 3: be doing, because I do think that those two things

765
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Speaker 3: are directly connected. And all of the hundreds of millions

766
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Speaker 3: of dollars that flowed into his campaign from pro zionist sources.

767
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Speaker 3: Then you've got the media array. You know, we just

768
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Speaker 3: got the news about the you know, the paramount deal.

769
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Speaker 3: So now you have the Ellison's have not only CBS, CNN, HBO, TikTok,

770
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Speaker 3: just this mass media empire that is not only pro Trump,

771
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: but pro Zionists to do their best to manufacture consent.

772
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Speaker 3: Not that I think that's entirely going to work on

773
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Speaker 3: the American people, but those are all the chips that

774
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 3: they've kind of got in play to make this you know, final, final, disastrous,

775
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Speaker 3: insane move on the chess board.

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Speaker 1: Right yeah, I mean, just summarizing now. Obviously we will

777
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Speaker 1: be covering this now for years to come. I hope

778
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Speaker 1: we were able to add a little bit of some

779
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: context to the things that you're all watching play out.

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Speaker 1: This is unfortunately going to be very long. This will

781
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Speaker 1: be a week's long campaign just in the immediate future.

782
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Speaker 1: Then we will have to see where things shake out.

783
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Speaker 1: There's untold amounts of death and destruction for the people

784
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Speaker 1: of Iran. They are now fully going to be at

785
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Speaker 1: the mercy of the western and the regional powers. There

786
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Speaker 1: will also probably be at the mercy of a regime

787
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Speaker 1: which is fighting for its life. The Iranian Foreign Minister

788
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Speaker 1: is on television right now, Crystal, as you and I

789
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: are speaking. He has said, as far as he knows,

790
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Speaker 1: the Ayahtola is alive. He is also saying that he

791
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Speaker 1: doesn't know why the United States insists on diplomacy and

792
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Speaker 1: then tax the other party in the middle of their negotiations.

793
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Speaker 1: He says, we lost a few commanders, but that's fine.

794
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Speaker 1: We know how to fight from here, echoing some of

795
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: the things I was saying earlier. They planned basically to

796
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: be for a lot of decapitation, and effectively it's built in,

797
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: and now they have no choice but to go all out.

798
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: What all out means and their capabilities, obviously we don't know.

799
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of lives at risk on American

800
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Speaker 1: service members too. I really do I think I would

801
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Speaker 1: live to see it.

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Speaker 3: A lot of lives, a lot of chaos, you know,

803
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 3: I mean kind of everything is really on the line

804
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 3: right now. You've opened up an extraordinary, you know, an

805
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 3: extraordinarily dangerous Pandora's box, and now we all just have

806
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 3: to sit back and see where the hell this this

807
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 3: takes us. I'm going to be interviewing doctor Tree to

808
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Speaker 3: Parsi in a little while, so pay attention for you know,

809
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 3: look out for that interview later today. And we're going

810
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Speaker 3: to continue to stay on top of this as things develop. Also,

811
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Speaker 3: just you know, caveat on everything that all the elements

812
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 3: that we put up. Obviously, this is a very fast

813
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 3: moving situation, and you know, it can be difficult to

814
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Speaker 3: ascertain the veracity of all the things that are unfolding

815
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 3: in your timeline on a moment basis, which is also

816
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 3: you know reality check for you guys out there while

817
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 3: you're monitoring the situations. Just remember that there's always things

818
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 3: that come out that turn out to be untrue later on,

819
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Speaker 3: So just keep that in mind as you're processing all

820
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Speaker 3: of this information.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind propaganda AI social media, disinformation from the

822
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Speaker 1: ir audience, from the Israelis, from the United States. Keep

823
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: in mind, try to fact check some of these things.

824
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Speaker 1: It's going to mean immensely difficult time ahead for all

825
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Speaker 1: of us. I'm grateful to be doing the show with you.

826
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Speaker 1: I hope we can try and help people understand the world.

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Speaker 1: It's a bad time, but we'll see you all as

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Speaker 1: soon as probably very soon, unfortunately,